To understand the crisis, there's history and lots of text to pour over. It's not easy--no war ever starts out of no where and no peace ever comes from war. We are heading into troubled times, I fear..

In 2012, President Obama scored debate points over Mitt Romney when he joked that the 1980s were calling to ask for its foreign policy back. Obama went on to say that the Cold War was over and that Russia was not an enemy. Mitt Romney responded by saying that Russia was a geopolitical foe.

I don't present these videos as any endorsement of a candidate (or former candidate) but as a message: You never know where your foreign policy crisis may be. And it's also never safe to assume State Department or CIA meddling in an independent nation will ever lead to any good results.